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Investigation of Transmission Line
Overvoltages and their Deduction Approach
A. Hayati Soloot, A. Gholami, E. Agheb, A. Ghorbandaeipour, and P. Mokhtari
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Abstract—The two significant overvoltages in power system,
switching overvoltage and lightning overvoltage, are investigated in
this paper. Firstly, the effect of various power system parameters on
Line Energization overvoltages is evaluated by simulation in ATP.
The dominant parameters include line parameters; short-circuit
impedance and circuit breaker parameters. Solutions to reduce
switching overvoltages are reviewed and controlled closing using
switchsync controllers is proposed as proper method.
This paper also investigates lightning overvoltages in the
overhead-cable transition. Simulations are performed in
PSCAD/EMTDC. Surge arresters are applied in both ends of cable to
fulfill the insulation coordination. The maximum amplitude of
overvoltages inside the cable is surveyed which should be of great
concerns in insulation coordination studies.
Keywords—Switching Overvoltage, Lightning Overvoltage,
Insulation Coordination, ATP, PSCAD/EMTDC.
T
I. INTRODUCTION
HE level of transient overvoltage has a strong effect to
power system reliability. It has already been known that
switching overvoltages are the most important criteria which
the design of insulation of extra high voltage (EHV) systems
is based on [1].
With the increment of the operating voltage of transmission
systems, switching surge overvoltages determine the
insulation design rather than lightning overvoltages. The
insulation level required to withstand the switching surge
overvoltages can have a significant influence on the cost of
transmission systems. Therefore, an accurate estimation of the
switching overvoltages under various conditions of operation
is an important factor for the design of transmission systems.
The main operations that can produce switching overvoltages
are line energization and reenergization, capacitor and reactor
switching, occurrences of faults and breaker openings [2].
Transmission line switching transient and its severity
depend on the difference between the supply and the line
voltages at the instant of energization. If energization occurs
A. Hayati Soloot is with Electrical Engineering Department, Iran
University of Science and Technology (corresponding author to provide
phone: +98-9126508944; e-mail: amir.hayati@ gmail.com).
A. Gholami is with Electrical Engineering Department, Iran University of
Science and Technology, (e-mail: gholami@iust.ac.ir).
E. Agheb is with School of Electrical and Computer Department,
University of Tehran (e-mail: e.agheb@gmail.com).
A. Ghorbandaeipour is with School of Electrical and Computer
Department, University of Tehran (e-mail: ali.ghr@gmail.com)
P. Mokhtari is with North Industrial Electricity Company (e-mail:
pozhhan@gmail.com).
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at an instant when the difference between supply voltage and
the line voltage is high, a large traveling wave would be
injected on the transmission line. At the time, this wave
reaches the open far end of the line, it gets reflected and a high
transient overvoltage is experienced [3].
Such switching transients are of concern for many EHV
transmission networks, especially for long transmission lines.
For transmission networks rated at voltages of 420 kV and
above, switching impulse withstand voltage of the system and
its equipments is about 2-3 p.u. and therefore, switching
overvoltages have to be kept under control [3], [4].
Line parameters surveyed here are the length of
transmission line, trapped charge and shunt compensation.
Circuit breaker parameters are pole discordance, preinsertion
resistors and their being in system duration. The limitation of
the switching overvoltages – especially when used in
combination with surge arresters – could be similar to what is
achieved with preinsertion resistors [4].
ATP program is used to simulate the energization of a
typical 400 kV transmission line. J.Marti Model applied for
the transmission line is a frequency dependant model with
constant transformation matrix [5]. Since switching
phenomenon is simulated; the appropriate matrix frequency is
5 kHz [6].
Lightning overvoltages must be taken into account when
designing the insulation system of a cable. The required
lightning impulse voltage withstand capability (BIL) is
defined in norms (e.g., IEC 60071-2) as specified levels of a
1.2/50 µs impulse voltage. IEC specifies one, two, or three
BIL levels for each system voltage, thus giving the customer
some room for adapting the BIL to the actual lightning
overvoltage conditions. The manufacturer is simply required
to produce cables that satisfy the lightning test voltages [7].
To avoid cable failures due to Lightning Overvoltages, it is
essential to keep the protective level provided by arresters
within a safe margin. It is then desirable to calculate the
maximum overvoltages experienced by cables with certain
accuracy [8].
The models for overhead lines and underground cables in
ATP/EMTP are generally based on the Method of
Characteristics (MoC) with recursive convolution due to the
high efficiency of the resulting model. For overhead lines,
satisfactory results can usually be achieved by assuming a
constant transformation matrix and frequency-dependent
modes. For underground cables, however, the assumption of a
constant can lead to erroneous results. This problem can, for
most cable systems, be overcome by frequency dependent
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TABLE II
RADII AND RESISTANCES OF PHASE CONDUCTOR AND SHIELD WIRE
transformation matrix [9], [10].
II. SWITCHING OVERVOLTAGES
A. Simulation Specifications for Line Energization
In order to investigate the effects of power system
parameters on switching overvoltages, the following circuit in
Fig. 1 is used for simulation. The parameters of the voltage
source are determined in Table I.
outer radius of shield wire
0.76 mm
inner radius of shield wire
0
resistance per kilometer of
shield wire
1.63 Ω
outer radius of phase conductor
3.15 mm
inner radius of phase conductor
0.85 mm
resistance per kilometer of phase conductor
0.033 Ω
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Considering these phase distances, the per-meter
inductance and per-meter capacitance of transmission line is
achievable by these formulas [11]:
Fig. 1 Power network arrangement applied for simulation in ATP
L=
TABLE I
PARAMETERS OF THE VOLTAGE SOURCE
C=
source voltage (line voltage)
400 kV
frequency
50 Hz
positive sequence resistance
0.711 Ω
zero sequence resistance
0.55 Ω
positive sequence inductance
11.857 mH
zero sequence inductance
8.98 mH
Fig. 2 depicts the dimensions of the transmission line
towers and the conductor arrangements. J. Marti model is
defined for transmission line modeling. Skin effect, segmented
grounding and transposition are considered in the modeling.
Table II provides the radii and resistances of phase conductors
and shield wires.
μ0
GMD
Ln(
)
2π
r′
2πε 0
GMD
Ln(
)
r
where:
(H/m)
(1)
(F/m)
(2)
GMD = 3 D12 D13 D23
(3)
(4)
r ′ = r × e −0.25
D12, D13 and D23 in equation (3), are phase-to-phase
distances and r is the radius of phase conductor. The time
takes for switching surge to travel from the beginning to the
end of the transmission line is represented by τ and is
calculated using equation (5):
τ = l LC
(5)
In equation (5), l is the length of the transmission line and
is assumed 220 kilometer in this paper. For the dimensions
shown in Fig. 2 and the assumed length, τ is 0.74 millisecond.
The period of switching overvoltages is 4τ and equals to 2.96
millisecond.
Fig. 2 Conductor arrangements for the 400 kV tower
Fig. 3 Voltage at the beginning of the transmission line (red curve),
voltage at the end of the transmission line (green curve)
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The duplication of the switching surge at the end of
transmission line is illustrated in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4. From Fig.
3, it can be obtained that damping of switching overvoltages
takes around 100 milliseconds. Comparing the green curve
(voltage at the end of transmission line) with the red one
(voltage ate the beginning of transmission line) in Fig. 4,
traveling time is 740 microseconds which exactly corresponds
to the amount calculated from equation 5.
U f = Z si f
R and L in equation 7 and 8 are R+ and L+. Uf is the front
traveling surge. Combining the two equations, equation (9) is
resulted.
U RL =
ZU
RU
+ s
e
R + Zs R + Zs
−( R+ Z s )t
L
(9)
URL is the voltage drop on equivalent short circuit
impedance. As R is so smaller than Zs, equation 9 can be
simplified to the following formula:
U RL = Ue
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(8)
− Z st
L
(10)
Equation 10 describes the blue curve in Fig. 5. Increasing
the inductance leads to higher time constant for the deduction
of voltage on short circuit impedance and consequently slower
increase in switching surge at the beginning and end of
transmission line.
Fig. 4 Voltage at the beginning of the transmission line (red curve),
voltage at the end of the transmission line (green curve), voltage drop
on the equivalent short circuit impedance (blue curve) and current
surge by a factor of 500 (pink curve)
It takes 2τ for switching surge to return to the beginning of
the transmission line. In this time interval, voltage and current
surges have the same form, just the current surge is 500 times
smaller than voltage one. This multiplication factor is equal to
surge impedance Zs which is defined as:
Zs =
L
C
(6)
The diversion of current surge after 2τ causes a spike
voltage on the equivalent short circuit impedance and affects
the switching surge as well. According to what mentioned in
this section, the effect of power system parameters is
investigated in the following sections.
B. Effect of Voltage Source Parameters
Voltage source represents network voltage, frequency and
short circuit impedance. Among these parameters, network
voltage and frequency are consistent and short circuit
impedance can be considered as a variable parameter.
At first, the effect of positive sequence inductance is
surveyed. If the positive sequence inductance is multiplied by
four, the time constant of voltage rising at the end of the
transmission line will be quadrupled. It results in smoother
switching overvoltage but the peak of switching transient is
some ten kilovolts higher. In order to describe this effect, the
following equations just after switching can be applied:
U = Ri + L
di
+U f
dt
(7)
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Fig. 5 Voltage at the beginning (red curve) and voltage at the end of
the transmission line (green curve) for L+=11.857 mH, voltage at the
beginning of the transmission line (blue curve) and voltage at the end
of the transmission line (pink curve) for L+=47.4 mH
C. Effect of Circuit Breaker Parameters
Circuit breaker plays the main role in transient overvoltages
of line energization. Voltage difference on circuit breaker
before switching definitely determines the amplitude of
overvoltages at the end of transmission line.
In previous section, it was mentioned that energizing a
transmission line at the moment of peak voltage results in 2
p.u. overvoltage surge at the end of transmission line. In order
to reduce the amplitude of overvoltages, pre-insertion resistors
can be used at the moment of switching.
The simulation circuit suitable for investigating preinsertion resistor effect is brought in Fig. 6. The time interval
which the resistor presents is in the order of milliseconds due
to the mechanical delay time in breakers which is in the same
order. The second breaker bypasses the resistor after some ten
milliseconds of first breaker closure. This delay time is a
margin to prevent from closure of bypassing breaker sooner
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Second Breaker
Bypassing Breaker
First Breaker
Fig. 8 The simulation circuit to model the trapped charge
TABLE III
DAMPING TIME OF OVERVOLTAGE TRANSIENTS APPLYING VARIOUS
RESISTANCE VALUES
Resistance Value
Damping Time
(Ohm)
(ms)
0
140
Main Breaker
Overvoltage at the end of trans. line(pu)
Res. voltage(kV)
2
1.8
1.6
1.4
1.2
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
200
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
100
20
200
10
300
10
400
2
500
0
The worst case is when a trapped charge of -1 p.u and
energizing the transmission line in +1 p.u. The transient
overvoltage reaches to 3 p.u. illustrated in Fig. 9. The
insulators at the end of transmission line encounter 4 p.u.
voltage changes in 100 us when the first surge reaches to end
of transmission line.
Res. Peak voltage(kV)
Fig. 7 describes the effect of pre-insertion resistance value
on the amplitude of overvoltages in the 400 kV network in
Fig. 6. Increasing the resistance, the amplitude of overvoltages
will be deducted. Besides, the more resistance is inserted, the
more voltage drop is across the pre-insertion resistor in steady
state which means that if the bypassing of the resistor is not
done precisely at the moment of zero potential across it,
higher switching transients will occur again. This effect was
of main importance when the idea of synchronous switching
was not prompt. Synchronous switching by switch-sync relays
is definitely a proper substitution for pre-insertion resistors
which will be discussed in next section.
O vervoltage(pu)
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Fig. 6 The simulation circuit for investigating pre-insertion resistor
effects
900 1000 1100
Pre-insertion Resistance
Fig. 7 The effect of pre-insertion resistance on overvoltage amplitude
and voltage on pre-insertion resistor in steady state
Analyzing the curves in Fig. 7, the optimum pre-insertion
resistor is 500 ohm which is equal to surge impedance of
transmission line. In this case, pre-insertion resistor is called
matching impedance. This matching impedance makes the
switching surge to be half in the beginning of the transmission
line and at the end it will be doubled. So, the amplitude will
be the same as original switching surge and not more.
As in Table III, the more resistance, the sooner the
overvoltage transients damp which result in the decrement of
insulation failure probability. It confirms that 500 ohm is the
appropriate value for pre-insertion resistance.
D. Effect of Transmission Line Parameters
For a transmission line with definite length and definite
tower geometry, the main and effective parameter which
should be considered is the trapped charge on transmission
line. To model the effect of trapped charge, the follow circuit
is applied, Fig. 8.
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Fig. 9 Switching surge in the beginning (green curve) and at the end
of transmission line (red curve), the transmission line has -1 p.u.
trapped charge and line energized in 1 p.u.
Energizing the line at the moment of zero voltage while line
has -1 p.u. trapped charge has two forms, Fig. 10 and Fig. 11.
First surge has more severe waveform in the case when
voltage ascends after voltage zero, Fig. 10. The maximum
overvoltage in both cases is 2.5 p.u. The last case which can
be obtained by synchronous switching has the lowest
overvoltages in the order of 1.5 p.u., Fig. 12. Thus, energizing
the transmission line considering the equipotentiality of
breaker terminals deduces the overvoltages to the acceptable
margin.
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III. LIGHTNING OVERVOLTAGES
Fig. 10 The switching surge in the beginning (green curve) and at the
end of transmission line (red curve), the transmission line has -1 p.u.
trapped charge and line energized at the moment of zero potential
and when the sinusoidal voltage curve goes up to 1 p.u.
A. Lightning Modeling
Sometimes, there is a necessity to connect over-head lines
with cable systems. It mostly occurs in distribution networks.
In special cases such as environmental requirements or limited
space for overhead lines in densely populated areas, the usage
of cable connection or GIL [12] is mandatory.
As the overhead line and cable connection illustrated in Fig.
13, lightning may strike one phase of the overhead line and
the overvoltage surge travels toward the cable. A surge
arrester should be applied in the connection point to protect
cable from overvoltages. By the way, simulations should be
performed to notice about the possibility of the maximum
overvoltage occurrence inside the cable and its amplitude.
Fig. 13 Overhead line- Underground transition [7]
A 100 kilometers transmission line, which has cable
transition in the50 kilometer, is simulated in this paper, Fig
14. The transmission line has 132 kV rated line voltage and
feeds a load of 50 MW, 50 MVAr at the end of the
transmission line. The characteristics of the voltage source are
brought in Table I.
TABLE IV
PARAMETERS OF THE VOLTAGE SOURCE
source voltage (line voltage)
Fig. 11 The switching surge in the beginning (green curve) and at the
end of transmission line (red curve), the transmission line has -1 p.u.
trapped charge and line energized at the moment of zero potential
and when the sinusoidal voltage curve goes down to -1 p.u.
132 kV
frequency
50 Hz
positive sequence resistance
0.711 Ω
positive sequence inductance
11.857 mH
Fig. 15 depicts the dimensions of the transmission line
towers and the conductor arrangements. C1 is a side conductor
and considered as phase A. As illustrated in simulation circuit,
Fig. 14, the lightning surge strikes C1.
The specifications of the phase conductor and shield wire
are given in Table II.
TABLE V
THE SPECIFICATIONS OF PHASE CONDUCTOR AND SHIELD WIRE
Fig. 12 The switching surge in the beginning (green curve) and at the
end of transmission line (red curve), the transmission line has -1 p.u.
trapped charge and line energized at -1 p.u.
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phase conductor radius
0.02m
phase conductor DC resistance
0.032
ohms/km
SAG for all conductors
10m
ground wire radius
0.0055m
Ground wire DC resistance
2.865ohms/km
SAG for all ground wires
10m
Shunt conductance
1e-11 mhos/m
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Fig. 14 The simulation circuit of the 100 kilometer transmission line with cable transition in middle.
In order to obtain 1.2/50 µs lightning surge in
PSCAD/EMTDC, parameter a in equation (9) is adjusted to
15500, in which the half time will be set to 50 µs. Parameter b
is 2500000. So, the rise time is 1.2 µs, the blue curve in Fig.
17.
Fig. 15 Conductor arrangement of the transmission tower
In PSCAD/EMTDC a frequency dependent phase model is
applied for the transmission line and the underground cable. In
this model, curve fitting start frequency is 0.5 Hz and curve
fitting end frequency is 1 MHz. Maximum order of fitting for
both Yshunt and propagation function is 20 with the maximum
fitting error of 0.2%.
The radius of different layers of underground cable is
illustrated in Fig. 16. The underground cable is placed 1meter
under the ground surface.
In this model, lightning surge is modeled with a current
source with the following equation:
(9)
I = I m (e − at − e − bt )
)
Fig. 16 Underground Cable Characteristics
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Fig. 17 Current waveform of lightning surge, Isurge (blue curve),
current of the point hit by lightning in phase A, Ia (green curve)
Analyzing the green curve and comparing it with the blue
one, the addition of another surge to flowing lightning surge
in phase A is obtainable. It emerges some ten microseconds
after lightning surge injection. The time interval is around
twice the time takes for surge to reach to cable connection.
Therefore the time interval directly depends on the distance of
stroke place to cable connection. After some 100
microseconds, another pulse can be observed in current
waveform of stroke point. In fact, that’s the reflection of
lightning surge reached to the source.
B. Simulation Results
In the model delivered in Fig. 14, the overvoltage at the end
of the second section of the transmission line and cable end is
directly related to lightning current and distance of lightning
strike from the cable.
In Fig. 18, the overvoltage surges at different places along
the transmission line are illustrated. It should be noted that the
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waveforms of Vcable and Vload are multiplied by a scale factor
of 10 in order to be in the same order of magnitude with Vsurge.
Thus, the maximum surge amplitude on the load is limited to
2.5 p.u. For stroke place, a sharp deduction in voltage surge
after some ten microseconds is observable. Simulating
precisely the time interval which this phenomenon happened,
the reflection of lightning surge from cable-transmission line
connection can be comprehended as the cause for it. The
moment which the reflected surge reaches the stroke point, the
duplication in current surge and sharp decrease in voltage
surge come about simultaneously, Fig. 19. Since the surge
impedance of cable is one order of magnitude lower than that
of transmission line and the overvoltage surge reflects again at
the end of cable, the sharp decrease follows by a smooth
increase in the voltage at the stroke point. For cables with
longer length, the reflections inside cable are more obvious,
Fig. 18 and Fig. 19.
voltage surge on the load without or with applying surge
arrester, respectively. Comparing these figures, one can obtain
that the amplitude of overvoltages are deducted one order of
magnitude and limited to 2 p.u. which is bearable for line
insulators and load dielectrics. Although the application of
surge arrester ensures insulation coordination for load and line
insulators, the overvoltages inside cable and their severity
should be seriously considered.
Fig. 20 Maximum amplitude of voltage surge on the load without
cable surge arresters in cable-line connection
Fig. 18 Vsurge : Voltage surges in the stroke place (blue curve), Vcable:
Voltage surge at the beginning of cable (green curve) and Vload:
Voltage surge on the load (red curve) for Lightning strike with
amplitude of 30 kA and 5 km distance from the cable. Vcable and Vload
are multiplied by 10
Fig. 21 Maximum amplitude of voltage surge on the load with cable
surge arresters in cable-line connection
Fig. 19 Ia: current of the point hit by lightning in phase A (blue
curve). Vsurge : Voltage surges in the stroke place (green curve),
Vcable: Voltage surge at the beginning of cable (red curve) for
Lightning strike with amplitude of 30 kA and 5 km distance from the
cable. Ia is multiplied by 450 and Vcable is multiplied by 10
Fig. 22 and Fig. 23 depict the voltage surge at different
points inside the cable while the lightning strike the line at
2km and 25 km to cable connection, respectively. The first
voltage surge approaches 4 p.u. and even more
instantaneously and have oscillatory waveform. The longer
distance lightning strikes the transmission line, the closer are
the first surge and the reflected surge from voltage source.
Thus, overvoltage surge inside cable will be similar to square
form with some oscillations, Fig. 23.
Fig. 20 and Fig. 21 depict the maximum amplitude of
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Fig. 22 Vcable: Voltage surge at the beginning of cable (blue curve), Vcableend: Voltage surge at the end of cable (red curve), Vcablemid (green
curve): Voltage surge inside cable at 50 m from cable beginning (a), 150 m from cable beginning (b), 250 m from cable beginning (c) and 350
m from cable beginning (d). The cable length is 420 meters. Lightning surge strikes the line at 2 kilometers to cable and its amplitude is 30 kA.
Fig. 23 Vcable: Voltage surge at the beginning of cable (blue curve), Vcableend: Voltage surge at the end of cable (red curve), Vcablemid (green
curve): Voltage surge inside cable at 50 m from cable beginning (a), 150 m from cable beginning (b), 250 m from cable beginning (c) and 350
m from cable beginning (d). The cable length is 420 meters. Lightning surge strikes the line at 25 kilometers to cable and its amplitude is 30
kA.
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IV. LIGHTNING OVERVOLTAGES
Investigating switching overvoltages due to line
energization, network short circuit impedance, pre-insertion
resistors and the trapped charge of transmission line have the
main effect on switching transients. The optimum preinsertion resistor obtained from simulation results, is called
matching impedance which is equal to surge impedance of
transmission line. The hazardous transients caused by
energizing transmission line while line has opposite trapped
charge presents the necessity of closing the breaker when its
terminal is equipotential. The implementation of switch sync
relays properly deduces the transient overvoltages.
Investigating lightning overvoltages in overheadunderground transition, the effective application of surge
arrester with Vref 120 kV is simulated in a 100 km 132 kV
transmission line. The implementation of arresters in cableline transition points result in the one order of magnitude
reduction of overvoltages comparing to having no arresters.
The overvoltages restricted to 2 p.u. which is bearable for line
insulators and load dielectrics. Although insulation
coordination is fulfilled for transmission line and load by
surge arresters, the overvoltages inside cable and their severity
should be seriously considered which may approach 4. p.u.
and even more instantaneously and have oscillatory
waveform.
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